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Downtown Sarasota Arts and Culture ~ Save the Dates for these Annual Events

The 9th Annual Van Wezel Foundation Gala~ Feb 14. – Valentines Day with Galdys Knight. A great evening planned.. for tickets go to http://www.vwfoundation.org/Page.aspx?pid=297   The 22nd Annual Sarasota Festival of the Arts will be here February 20 and 21 ~ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm  both days. Location >  Main Street at Orange and to the South,…

Downtown Sarasota Bayfront News

Unconditional surrender or aka Kissing Sailor is here to stay for another 10 years. The Sarasota City Commisioners voted 3-2 to accept the risk of a potential copy right issue  and to let the statue stay. The City of Sarasota feels confident that Time Inc probably will not challenge the bayfront statue. Steward Johnson’s statue of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s  famous…

Downtown Sarasota Bayfront News

Unconditional surrender or aka Kissing Sailor is here to stay for another 10 years. The Sarasota City Commisioners voted 3-2 to accept the risk of a potential copy right issue  and to let the statue stay. The City of Sarasota feels confident that Time Inc probably will not challenge the bayfront statue. Steward Johnson’s statue of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s  famous…

Downtown Sarasota’s Farmers Market

The Downtown Partnership took over control of the downtown Sarasota’s farmers market from the City Commission in September. Since then they have been in the process of expanding the market to State street to 10 -15 more vendors that focus on agriculture and green living. Right now there are 58 vendors that open up every Saturday morning at 7 am….